Comments on: "The Dollars & Sense of Protecting Community Character" http://hanoversfuture.org/2007/02/27/the-dollars-sense-of-protecting-community-character/ Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:21:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://hanoversfuture.org/2007/02/27/the-dollars-sense-of-protecting-community-character/#comment-21 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:00:00 +0000 http://hanoversfuture.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/the-dollars-sense-of-protecting-community-character/#comment-21 It is 7:30 PM and this is the first I have heard of this. And I checked this blog this AM. It sounds so much like surrender to the will of the County Supervisors. They are going to do what they want and not what the Community wants.

This is our second set of Military Orders that brought us to Richmond and we choose both times .to live in Hanover County. Hanover County was where crime was low, schools were good, and communities were not crowded. It was close enough to Richmond, Short Pump, and Fort Lee without having to live in those places.

Having lived in communities all over the United States for the last 35 years, I have seen the good, the not so good, and the great places to live. The planning and the direction of the County Supervisors and Planning Department is illogical, ill-conceived, and poorly applied. Contractors run this county!

Hanover County’s future is urban sprawl, crowed schools, police and fire departments stretched to far. It is headed into the concrete jungle that people move away from and look for less crowed places with good schools and low crime!

This BS that growth is inevitable and desireable is just that, BS. It’s time for more control, not less. The result of the proposed plan is that some contractors and politicians get rich and the county will be turned into a commercial wasteland.

On the bright side, we get to leave soon. One thing about the Military is if you don’t like a place, you will leave in 2 years.

I think Hanover County has time to stop the run away Board of Supervisors and elect new folks who aren’t in such a rush to make contractors rich! That’s my philosophy, if they won’t listen to the people, VOTE THEM OUT! 6 November 2007

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